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EKAW
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Social People-Tagging vs. Social Bookmark-Tagging
Abstract. Tagging has been widely used and studied in various domains. Recently, people-tagging has emerged as a means to categorize contacts, and is also used in some social acces...
Peyman Nasirifard, Sheila Kinsella, Krystian Samp,...
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 9 days ago
Social Tagging in Query Expansion: A New Way for Personalized Web Search
Social networks and collaborative tagging systems are rapidly gaining popularity as primary means for sorting and sharing data: users tag their bookmarks in order to simplify infor...
Claudio Biancalana, Alessandro Micarelli
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Social Inference Risk Modeling in Mobile and Social Applications
— The emphasis of emerging mobile and Web 2.0 applications on collaboration and communication increases threats to user privacy. A serious, yet under-researched privacy risk resu...
Sara Motahari, Sotirios G. Ziavras, Mor Naaman, Mo...
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Producing wrong data without doing anything obviously wrong!
This paper presents a surprising result: changing a seemingly innocuous aspect of an experimental setup can cause a systems researcher to draw wrong conclusions from an experiment...
Todd Mytkowicz, Amer Diwan, Matthias Hauswirth, Pe...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
Inspiring blind high school students to pursue computer science with instant messaging chatbots
Blind students are an underrepresented group in computer science. In this paper, we describe our experience preparing and leading the computer science track at the National Federa...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Maxwell B. Aller, Jeremy T. Bru...